Mark Cuban, the forward-thinking owner of HDNet and the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, is looking to Farmville-style games as a way to boost his team's fanbase and increase his network's productivity.

Cuban, on his blog, put out a call for developers of social games who can build "consumer and corporate applications. I'm not looking for knockoffs of existing games/apps."

As that translates to his NBA team, Cuban told Forbes he's interested in a social game that's good enough to turn people who play it into fans of the team, if they're not already. For HDNet, Cuban thinks that "productivity games" can "solve a very big problem most companies have at various levels: boredom.

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"I think social games will extend very quickly into the business space," Cuban told Forbes. "People in a lot of positions get bored to tears or lose interest in what they are doing. Social gaming can add some fun and competition to mundane clerical and other tasks."